Their response seems daft, clearly no calls will come in when a phone is in 'airplane mode' as there is no service available. I does indeed make it into an ipod.
I wonder if any of the more technical types on the list have any idea what this government department means. Susan. On 16/04/2010, at 6:07 AM, Wendy S. Austin wrote: > > Good morning all > > There has been some 'discussion' at work about leaving phones in the > 'Airplane Mode'. According to the health and safety people (Australian > Government Department), even when phones are in that mode, dangerous things > can happen to people using headset telephones should a call come in. This > seems illogical to me as I thought once the phone was in 'Airplane Mode' the > telephone part of the phone was turned off completely thereby making it just > an iPod sort of thing, if you get my drift. > > I have done some searching on the internet about this but can't seem to find > any answers. Does anyone here have any knowledge about it? At the moment > we are required to turn our phones off completely when in any area where > headsets are used, not allowed to put it into 'Airplane Mode'. > > With thanks. > > Wendy > in Hobart > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
